Changing Lives

Kakuzu did not run in a straight line.

Instead, he changed direction, made a wide detour, and tunneled through the earth back to where Sasori had been killed.

After all, Tailed Beast Chakra had just flared up. Obito would definitely go after the Tailed Beast first.

Rather than coming back for Sasori, so the place where Sasori had died was the safest.

When Kakuzu circled back, he found that Chiyo had arrived before him.

Chiyo relaxed only after looking up and seeing Kakuzu. She knew that he was her grandson's companion.

With a grave expression, Chiyo searched the ground for Sasori's true body.

Kakuzu felt somewhat embarrassed. After all, the two of them had been working together, yet Sasori had now been killed.

At that moment, Chiyo found Sasori lying on the ground with a blade stuck in him.

Chiyo pulled out the blade and tossed it aside.

She gently caressed Sasori, her eyes seeming to hold a thousand unspoken words.

After a long while, Chiyo raised her head and asked Kakuzu,

"Didn't Sasori say there wouldn't be any danger?"

Kakuzu was somewhat awkward. After all, Sasori was dead.

"Our identities were exposed. Obito came himself, and we were no match for him. He should be going after Gaara now."

Chiyo showed no reaction to the possibility that Gaara might be captured, as though she did not care at all.

"Leave this place with Sasori later."

Kakuzu did not understand what Chiyo meant. Then he saw white light emerge from her hands as she pressed them against Sasori's true body.

Kakuzu wanted to say something, but he kept quiet.

After all, Chiyo was already over seventy, and she seemed perfectly clear-headed. There was no way she did not know Sasori was dead.

Kakuzu began to form a vague guess.

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